Title: Megan Kamerick: Women should represent women in media
Link: http://www.ted.com/talks/megan_kamerick_women_should_represent_women_in_media.html
Media type: Moving images
Age: secondary, tertiary
Language: English
Subtitles: English
Length: 10:31
MIL modules and units: M3U1 M3u2 M2u2 M2u3
Subject tags: Languages, social studies
Theme tag: Communication, technology and media Culture, inter-culture dialogue Women
Megan Kamerick shows how the news media under represents women as reporters and news sources, and because of that tells an incomplete story. It is a lecture that has many good examples of how misrepresentation affects in this case women, but could easily be attributed to other large groups missing in the news.
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